byplay
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.05 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any action, carried out onstage during a performance, apart from the main action.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "[...] there had been some amusing byplay with the enginemen as to what might be expected to happen if the engines failed to behave themselves properly."
- "The father-son byplay is occasionally overdone and tedious, but there is a genuine warmth in both the Oland-Luke and the Toler-Sen Yung teamings."
Etymology
From by- + play.